Grammatica - loco

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Ze gingen met hem mee.
They went with him.
Many of the above prepositional pairs are written together, in which case
they function as adverbs of both motion and place (see 10.4). The Dutch
themselves are often confused here as to what is written together and
what is written as two words:
Ik heb het achter in de auto gevonden. (two prepositions)
I found it in the back of the car.
Ik heb het achterin gevonden. (an adverb)
I found it in the back.
achterin in the back middenin in the middle
achterom around the back onderaan at the bottom
(of a page)
achteruit backwards onderin at the bottom
(e.g. of a cupboard)
binnenin inside tussenin in between
bovenaan at the top voorin in the front
(of a page)
bovenop on top
13.2.4
Omission of English ‘of’
It should be noted that the preposition ‘of’ is sometimes left untranslated
in Dutch. This occurs in two cases:
1 With nouns indicating a quantity of the noun that follows which is
consequently either in the plural or is an uncountable noun (e.g. beer):
een fles bier/melk a bottle of beer/milk
een doosje lucifers a box of matches
een kist appels a box of apples
een krat bier a crate of beer
een lijst namen a list of names
een groep mensen a group of people
Notes on
prepositions
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